Vladimir Vélickovic

In 1960, Vladimir Veli?kovi? graduated from the Belgrade School of Architecture . It is intended actually to painting and held his first solo exhibition in 1963. After the price of the Paris Biennale in 1965 , he moved there the following year and still lives there today. He is with Dado and Ljuba Popovi? , artists of the same generation , one of the main three Yugoslav painters coming in France.

It will have represented Yugoslavia at the Venice Biennale 1972; and from 1983 to 2000 it will be foreman at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and will be an important seat . Witness, in his childhood, of the atrocities committed by the Nazis in Yugoslavia, Vladimir Velickovic expresses through painting , pain and violence of this memory.

In the early 1960s , it determines the themes that appear permanently in his work. He paints men or animals (usually rats or dogs) whose bodies are confronted with dramatic and terrifying situations.

In 1972 , he produced a series of paintings and drawings inspired by the photographs of Eadweard Muybridge (series of "Descent" [ 1989-1991 ] and "hooks" [ 1983-1991 ]) . He " seeks above all to leave a scar" in the memory of the viewer of the painting.